Redefining Sovereignty in International Economic Law.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (516 pages)
- Studies in International Trade and Investment Law Series .
- Studies in International Trade and Investment Law Series .
Prelims -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Contributors -- List of Tables, Figures and Boxes -- List of Abbreviations -- Table of Cases -- Table of International and National Instruments -- Introduction -- Part One Sovereignty and International Economic Law -- 1 Sovereignty: Outdated Concept or New Approaches -- 2 State Sovereignty, Popular Sovereignty and Individual Sovereignty: From Constitutional Nationalism to Multilevel Constitutionalism in International Economic Law? -- 3 Sovereignty, Lost and Found -- 4 Sovereignty and International Economic Law -- Part Two Trade Liberalisation and WTO Reform -- 5 Trade as the Guarantor of Peace, Liberty and Security? -- 6 Sovereignty and Reform of the World Trade Organisation -- 7 Sovereignty Issues in the WTO Dispute Settlement- A 'Development Sovereignty' Perspective -- 8 The Rule of Law and Proportionality in WTO Law -- 9 The Neo-Liberal Agenda in Investment Arbitration: Its Rise, Retreat andImpact on State Sovereignty -- 10 International Investment Arbitration: A Threat to State Sovereignty? -- 11 Calvo Doctrine, State Sovereignty and The Changing Landscape of International Investment Law -- Part Four Banking Regulation and International Financial Institutions -- 12 Banking, Economic Development and the Law -- 13 The Role of the IMF and World Bank in Financial Sector Reformand Compliance -- 14 International Financial Law and the New Sovereignty: Legal Arbitrage as an Emerging Dimension of Global Governance -- Part Five Human Rights and International Economic Law -- 15 Re-Righting International Trade: Some Critical Thoughts on the Contemporary Trade and Human Rights Literature -- 16 Binding the Hand that Feeds Them: The Agreement on Agriculture,Transnational Corporations and the Right to Adequate Food in Developing Countries. 17 Realising Rights in an Era of Economic Globalisation: Discourse Theory, Investor Rights, and Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment -- Index.
The contributions in this volume debate the meaning of sovereignty and the impact of international economic law on state sovereignty.